Tolui 744553 219752718 2008-06-16T18:56:49Z AnnaFrance 7002667 Fixing [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|links to disambiguation pages]] using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{Unreferenced|date=March 2008}} [[Image:TuluiWithQueenSorgaqtani.jpg|thumb|Tului with his Christian wife [[Sorghaghtani Beki|Sorghaghtani]], [[Rashid al-Din]], early 14th century.]] '''Tolui''', also rendered '''Toluy''' or '''Tolui [[Khan (title)|Khan]]''' ({{lang-mn|Толуй}}; {{zh-cp|c=拖雷|p=Tuōléi}}; c. [[1190]] – [[1232]]), was the youngest son of [[Genghis Khan]] by [[Börte]]. His [[ulus]], or territorial inheritance, at his father's death in [[1227]] was the homelands in [[Mongolia]], and it was he who served as civil administrator in the time it took to confirm [[Ögedei Khan|Ögedei]] as second khan. Before that, he had served with distinction in the campaigns against the [[Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)|Jin Dynasty]] and the [[Khwarezmid Empire]], where he was instrumental in the capture and massacre at [[Merv]]. ==Genghis Khan's succession== When Genghis Khan was deciding who should succeed him he had trouble choosing between Tolui and Ögodei. Tolui had amazing military skills and was very successful as a general, but Genghis Khan chose Ögodei because Ögodei was more capable politically. Genghis Khan felt that Tolui would be too cautious to be an effective leader. After Genghis Khan's death, Mongol nobles gathered together and elected Tolui as the new Khan, but Tolui rejected their decision and gave the [[Khanate]] to his brother, Ögodei, fulfilling his father's wishes. The Mongol nobles' moves were partly influenced by the tradition that the youngest son inherits his father's properties and partly because Tolui had the largest and most powerful army at the time. ==Death and Legacy== According to the [[Secret History of the Mongols]], Tolui sacrificed himself in order to cure Ögödei from a very severe illness during a campaign in China. The shamans had determined that the root of Ögödei's illness were China's spirits of the earth and the water, who were upset that their subjects had been driven away and their land devastated. Offering land, animals and people had only lead to an aggravation of Ögödeis illness, but when they offered to sacrifice a family member, Ögödei got better immediately. Tolui volunteered and died directly after consuming a cursed drink. Perhaps more important than him was the role his family, the Toluids, had in shaping the destinies of the [[Mongol Empire]]. Through his Christian wife [[Sorghaghtani Beki]], Tolui fathered [[Möngke]], [[Kublai Khan|Kublai]], [[Ariq Boke]], and [[Hulagu Khan|Hulagu]], and thus was the progenitor of the last of the great Khans, the [[Yuan Dynasty]] of China, and of the [[Ilkhanate|Il Khans]]. Rivalry between the Toluids and the sons of Ögedei and [[Jochi]] caused stagnation and infighting during the regency periods after the deaths of Ögedei and his son [[Güyük Khan|Güyük]]. However, it was a rivalry from among Tolui's own sons, Kublai and Ariq Boke, that fragmented the power of the empire and set the western khanates against each other in the early 1260s. ==See Also== * [[Hazaras]] {{Khagans of Mongol Empire}} {{Mongol Empire}} {{Yuan Emperors}} [[Category:Mongol khans]] [[Category:1190 births]] [[Category:1232 deaths]] [[de:Tolui Khan]] [[fa:تولی‌خان]] [[fr:Tolui]] [[it:Tolui]] [[ko:톨루이]] [[he:טולוי]] [[nl:Tolui]] [[ja:トルイ]] [[no:Tolui]] [[pl:Tołuj]] [[ru:Толуй]] [[fi:Tolui-kaani]] [[vi:Đà Lôi]] [[ur:تولی خان]] [[zh:拖雷]]